woodenheaded

adjective

Definition of woodenheadednext
as in dense

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  1. dense
  2. obtuse
  3. dull
  4. unwise
  5. dumb
  6. idiotic
  7. stupid
Adjective
  • Videos of the pyrotechnics display show the pitch filling with tall showers of sparks and dense smoke as dozens of fireworks launched upward.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • The rare Saturday night game at the iconic North Side ballpark started an hour late due to rain, then fog billowed in from the north starting in the second inning and got denser.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of dense
Adjective
  • Jed was touched by this obtuse response when Carl described it on the river.
    — Thomas McGuane, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2026
  • That wouldn’t surprise me, given how frustratingly obtuse Samsung’s settings can be.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of obtuse
Adjective
  • But all work and no play can make for a dull chief scientific officer.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 July 2026
  • The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
    — Owen Lamont, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of dull
Adjective
  • Here, however, the joke is that appearances can be deceiving — or to be more specific, that trying to act like a character in a movie is a reckless, unwise thing to do.
    — Elena Lazic, Variety, 26 June 2026
  • The owners likely would be unwise to roll out identical offers over and over.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of unwise
Adjective
  • The State’s humor is an interesting mixture of extremely dumb and self-aware.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • Mayhem comes to a coastal New England town in the form of a killer shark who hunts anybody dumb enough to get in the water.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?
    — Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Definition of idiotic
Adjective
  • And no, that was NOT OutKick or FOX who wrote that stupid headline.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • The thing about House of the Dragon is that everything really is quite stupid.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of stupid
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“Woodenheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodenheaded. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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